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How Lizzo Channeled Weezy, Missy Elliott & Her 14-Year-Old Self for Her Rap Mixtape: ‘I Was Calling Myself ‘Lizzo Wayne”
The Grammy-Award winner talks to Billboard about her new mixtape 'My Face Still Hurts From Smiling' and how female rappers are taking over the game.
Once a member of the Houston hip-hop group Cornrow Clique, Lizzo is back in rare form, delivering swaggering bars and vivacious energy that would’ve made her middle school classmates scream. Whether tag-teaming with bestie SZA on “IRL” or clowning hapless bachelors with Doja Cat on “Still Can’t Fuh,” she steamrolls her opps, while flashing her signature Colgate smile every step of the way. Below, Billboard speaks to Lizzo about how Lil Wayne and Missy Elliott served as inspirations for her new mixtape, if she would do an all-rap Tiny Desk, quieting the outside noise and her sisterhood with SZA.
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